Boredom Is in Your Mind A Shared Psychological-Philosophical Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ros Velasco, Josefa (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Cognitive psychology.; Neuropsychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Emotions.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Emotion.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Philosophy of Mind.

This book offers a unique perspective on the topic of boredom, with chapters written by diverse representatives of various mental health disciplines and philosophical approaches. On one hand, studying boredom involves the mental processes of attention, memory, perception, creativity, or language use...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Is it a Good Thing To Be Bored?
• Chapter 2: The Unbearable Lightness of Boredom: A Pragmatic Meaning-Regulation Hypothesis
• Chapter 3: Boredom: Managing the Delicate Balance between Exploration and Exploitation
• Chapter 4: Boredom Is A Feeling of Thinking and a Double-Edged Sword
• Chapter 5: Boredom and Psychoanalysis
• Chapter 6: The Transformative Potential of Boredom
• Chapter 7: Heidegger on Creativity: From Boredom to Reengagement with the World
• Chapter 8: Facing Boredom: Essential Indexicals and Narratives of the Self
• Chapter 9: Animal Boredom
• Chapter 10: The Helix Center Roundtable on Boredom (New York, April 2018).